LEADER 05804nam 2200853 a 450 001 9910792274603321 005 20211005223244.0 010 $a9786612006982 010 $a0-19-828634-1 010 $a0-19-152150-7 010 $a1-282-00698-3 035 $a(CKB)2560000000293765 035 $a(EBL)3053288 035 $a(OCoLC)63294296 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000087422 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11121233 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087422 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10053183 035 $a(PQKB)10818217 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000175287 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12065349 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175287 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10189129 035 $a(PQKB)10991903 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073973 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053288 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3053288 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10283761 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL200698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5746053 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000293765 100 $a20091031d1989 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHunger and public action$b[electronic resource] /$fJean Dre?ze and Amartya Sen 210 $aOxford $cClarendon$d1989 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 225 1 $aWIDER studies in development economics 300 $aIncludes indexes. 311 $a0-19-828365-2 311 $a0-19-159619-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFOREWORD; PREFACE; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; Part I: Hunger in the Modern World; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Past and Present; 1.2 Famine and Chronic Undernourishment; 1.3 Some Elementary Concepts; 1.4 Public Action for Social Security; 2 Entitlement and Deprivation; 2.1 Deprivation and the Law; 2.2 Entitlement Failures and Economic Analysis; 2.3 Availability, Command and Occupations; 2.4 The 'Food Crisis' in Sub-Saharan Africa; 3 Nutrition and Capability; 3.1 World Hunger: How Much?; 3.2 Food Deprivation and Undernourishment; 3.3 Poverty and Basic Capabilities 327 $a4 Society, Class and Gender4.1 Are Famines Natural Phenomena?; 4.2 Society and Cooperative Conflicts; 4.3 Female Deprivation and Gender Bias; 4.4 Famine Mortality and Gender Divisions; 4.5 Gender and Cooperative Conflicts; 4.6 Protection, Promotion and Social Security; Part II: Famines; 5 Famines and Social Response; 5.1 Famine Prevention and Entitlement Protection; 5.2 African Challenge and International Perception; 5.3 Informal Security Systems and Concerted Action; 5.4 Aspects of Traditional Response; 5.5 Early Warning and Early Action; 6 Famines, Markets and Intervention 327 $a6.1 The Strategy of Direct Delivery6.2 Availability, Prices and Entitlements; 6.3 Private Trade and Famine Vulnerability; 6.4 Speculation, Hoarding and Public Distribution; 6.5 Cash Support; 6.6 An Adequate Plurality; 7 Strategies of Entitlement Protection; 7.1 Non-exclusion, Targeting and Selection; 7.2 Alternative Selection Mechanisms; 7.3 Feeding and Family; 7.4 Employment and Entitlement; 7.5 A Concluding Remark; 8 Experiences and Lessons; 8.1 The Indian Experience; 8.2 A Case-Study: The Maharashtra Drought of 1970-1973; 8.3 Some African Successes; 8.4 Lessons from African Successes 327 $aPart III: Undernutrition and Deprivation9 Production, Entitlements and Nutrition; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Food Self-Sufficiency?; 9.3 Food Production and Diversification; 9.4 Industrialization and the Long Run; 9.5 Cash Crops: Problems and Opportunities; 9.6 From Food Entitlements to Nutritional Capabilities; 10 Economic Growth and Public Support; 10.1 Incomes and Achievements; 10.2 Alternative Strategies: Growth-Mediated Security and Support-Led Security; 10.3 Economic Growth and Public Support: Interconnections and Contrasts; 10.4 Growth-Mediated Security and Unaimed Opulence 327 $a10.5 Opulence and Public Provisioning10.6 Growth-Mediated Security: The Case of South Korea; 10.7 Support-Led Security and Equivalent Growth; 11 China and India; 11.1 Is China Ahead?; 11.2 What Put China Ahead?; 11.3 The Chinese Famine and the Indian Contrast; 11.4 Chinese Economic Reforms: Opulence and Support; 11.5 China, India and Kerala; 12 Experiences of Direct Support; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Sri Lanka; 12.3 Chile; 12.4 Costa Rica; 12.5 Concluding Remarks; Part IV: Hunger and Public Action; 13 The Economy, the State and the Public; 13.1 Against the Current? 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